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A3 Getting Started Guide

Although this guide isn’t the end-all-be-all for how to use the A3 process, it includes some of our favorite tools,…

LEI Light Blue 47′ Baseball Cap

Light blue LEI hat with lean leaper logo on front.

The Power of Process – A Story of Innovative Lean Process Development

True Lean process design goes well beyond forcing concepts and slogans, it is purposeful, scientific, and adaptable because every situation…

LEI Hat

Official LEI hat with lean leaper logo on front. Comfortable and sporty navy blue hat with white embroidery.

The Gold Mine (Audio CD)

The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…

Welcome Problems, Find Success – Creating Toyota Cultures Around the World

In this book, author Nate Furuta, former chair and CEO of Toyota Boshoku America Inc., shares his decades of experience directly…

The Toyota Way of Dantotsu Radical Quality Improvement (Paperback)

In Japanese, "dantotsu" means "extreme," "radical," or "unparalleled."  Toyota veteran Sadao Nomura shares the story of the dramatic improvement he and his…

Designing the Future/Lean Product & Process Development, 2 edition book set

The Gold Mine Trilogy 4 Book Set

Save $40 when you buy this as a set! ($115 total when books are purchased separately).  

Follow the Learner Set

Follow the Learner Set.

Learning to See / Seeing the Whole Value Stream Set

A special discounted combination package of two important and complementary lean tools, Learning to See and Seeing the Whole Value…

Learning to See / Creating Continuous Flow Set

Buy LEI's first two workbooks together and save 15%. Learning to See, a key initial step in a lean conversion, teaches…

Four Types of Problems / Managing to Learn Set

The perfect problem solving gift set for all lean thinkers.

LEI Workbook Set

Save on learning how to implement lean at the process, plant, and entire value-stream level with these workbooks by the…

Creating Continuous Flow / Making Materials Flow Set

Buy the two workbooks on flow together and save 15%. Continuous flow cells need a lean material-handling system to supply…

Mapping to See: Value-Stream Improvement Workshop

Mapping to See: Value-Stream Improvement for the Office and Services is a complete training solution created by some of the…

LEI Pencil

Becoming the Change

Two renowned healthcare transformation experts provide a blueprint for implementing the principles and behaviors leaders at all levels must embrace…

The Work of Management

Jim Lancaster tells an inspiring and practical business story in his new book, The Work of Management. It’s a close-up,…

VSM Getting Started Set

The Getting Started Set is three key LEI products that will quickly allow you to learn about, and get started…

Value-Stream Mapping Workshop Participant Guide

We've developed the contents of this Value-Stream Mapping Workshop Participant Guide to enhance learning. The structure of the modules in…

Value-Stream Mapping Pad

Generous-sized value stream mapping pads. Each sheet is 11 x 17 inches so you have plenty of room to draw…

The Value Add Accountant

This book expands the Real Numbers message by providing detailed examples of how to reveal accounting waste, start a personal value add…

Training to See Kit: A Value-Stream Mapping Workshop

The Training to See kit enables you to take people through the exercise of value-stream mapping, from selecting a product…

Steady Work

Transforming frontline operations in a retail chain the size of Starbucks is a story in itself. This book goes further,…

Seeing the Whole Value Stream

For the tens of thousands of users of value-stream mapping at the facility level, Seeing the Whole Value Stream provides…

Real Numbers

Companies throughout the world are using lean principles to dramatically change the competitive landscape while generating new profitability and market…

Perfecting Patient Journeys

Perfecting Patient Journeys is a guide to value-stream improvement for leaders of healthcare organizations who want to implement lean thinking…

On the Mend

Lean healthcare does not mean less care. On the Mend shows that when care is truly re-designed around patients, waste…

Mapping to See Workshop Participant Guide

The contents of the Mapping to See Workshop Participant Guide were developed to enhance active learning. The structure of the…

Managing to Learn: Using the A3 management process

Managing to Learn by Toyota veteran John Shook, reveals the thinking underlying the A3 management process found at the heart…

Making Materials Flow

Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system by explaining how to supply purchased parts…

The Machine That Changed the World

When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors.…

LEI SmartSheets

LEI SmartSheets turn any wall or flat surface into a whiteboard that you can take with you! They cling to almost…

Learning to See

Value-stream maps are the blueprints for lean transformations and Learning to See is an easy-to-read, step-by-step instruction manual that teaches…

Lean Thinking, 2nd Edition

Lean Thinking is about case studies from a wide range of industries, to distill out the essential principles of lean…

Lean Solutions

In Lean Solutions, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producer-consumer model and show businesses how to repair it.…

The Lean Sensei

The Lean Sensei provides both a conceptual and hands-on toolkit for developing lean leaders—and becoming one yourself. It will challenge…

Lean Product and Process Development, 2nd Edition

In the truly groundbreaking first edition of Lean Product and Process Development, Allen Ward showed the way. He delivered—with passion and penetrating…

The Lean Manager

For many companies, the most important problem is not doing lean; it is becoming lean. How can they advance beyond realizing isolated gains from deploying lean…

Lean Lexicon 5th Edition

The fifth edition of the Lexicon, first published in January 2003, is 140 pages, containing 60+ illustrations and 207 key…

The Lean Dentist

The Lean Dentist tells how a dental group transforms itself from typical batch-and-queue patient treatment to improved and profitable "one-patient…

The Lean Bakery

Food should be fresh. Yet we produce it in big batches. If fast-moving, small batch, one-piece flow can work with…

Lead With Respect

In their third business novel Lead With Respect, authors Michael and Freddy Ballé reveal the true power of lean: developing people…

Kaizen Express

Kaizen Express is a concise but precise illustrated guide to the fundamentals of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and how…

The Gold Mine

The Gold Mine deftly weaves together the technical and human pieces of implementing lean manufacturing in an engaging story that readers…

The Gold Mine Trilogy Study Guide

A way for teams to improve their lean practice together through reflection on the Ballé novel trilogy: The Gold Mine, The…

Getting the Right Things Done

For companies to be competitive, leaders must engage people at all levels in order to focus their energy and enable…

Getting Home

Getting Home is the inspiring story of a defense lawyer and a school teacher who left their careers to rebuild homes…

Gemba Walks, 2nd Edition

A collection of engaging, entertaining, and insightful essays by Jim Womack, based on the many gemba walks he has taken…

Four Types of Problems

When faced with a problem, many business leaders and teams mechanically reach for a familiar problem-solving methodology. The problem is…

Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade

Everything I Know About Lean I Learned in First Grade is a quick, fun introduction to lean principles. The book…

Creating Level Pull

Creating Level Pull shows you how to advance a lean manufacturing transformation from a focus on isolated improvements to improving…

Creating Lean Dealers

Car manufacturing has been transformed by Lean over the last 20 years yet car dealerships have remained virtually untouched by…

Creating Continuous Flow

This workbook explains in simple, step-by-step terms how to introduce and sustain lean flows of material and information in pacemaker…

Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream

This workbook explains step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers,…

The Birth of Lean: Conversations with the Founders of TPS

Fascinating interviews with the founders of lean. Learn about the origins of the Toyota Production System from the people responsible…

Designing the Future

Today’s elite companies know that the ability to consistently create successful new products and services is their most powerful competitive…